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The village of Starocherkasskaya, Rostov Region, has founded the first Russian museum of Cossacks abroad, with the Gate Church, where commemoration services will be held in memory of the Cossacks deceased abroad.

In the evening on October 13 law enforcers detected a press-on explosive device in the Kazbek District of Dagestan. It was de-mined, and now its power is established.

Today, Prime Minister of South Ossetia Vadim Brovtsev has inspected the progress of residential construction in Tskhinvali. As a result of the inspection, the Premier asked Sarmat Kotaev, deputy chairman of the State Committee for Implementation of Reconstruction Projects, to unilaterally cancel contracts with indecent contractors.

In 2002-2012, Kalmykia allocated about 130 million roubles within the republic's target programme "Affordable Housing - to Young Families"; already 652 young families have received social benefits to repay part of the value of purchased apartments. However, more than a thousand young families in the country still need improvement of their housing conditions.

The Russian Diaspora in Armenia discusses the conference of Russian compatriots that took place in Yerevan. Some of them think the event was productive, others assert its uselessness.

Today in Moscow, the third session took place on the criminal case of slander initiated against Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", under the suit of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

Bodies of two women and two children were found in an apartment in the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region. According to investigators, they could get poisoned by foodstuffs, said the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) of the Russian Federation spokesman.

The Office has cancelled the decision of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) not to open criminal cases on the facts of shelling women without headscarves from paintball guns in Grozny. This is stated in a letter by Ivan Sydoruk, Deputy Prosecutor General, published today on the website of Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin.

Seven servicemen have been detained in connection with the death of Samwell Khachatryan, statutory service soldier, on October, 3, in one of the military units of Armenia.

A criminal case of Arthur Eziyev accused of an arson of Evangelist Christian Baptist church "New Life" has been brought before Karachai court.

Ministry of Interior affairs and Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan have started an investigation in connection with the reports available on "black transplantation" of human organs.

Population census in Chechnya as well as in all the rest regions of Russia has started today. Law enforcement agencies of the republic will remain on an intensified watch regime until the end of the census.

Students and young specialists from Ingushetia and North Ossetia are participating in a seminar "Cross-cultural interaction School" which is under way in Moscow from October, 10, to October, 16.

Boris Evloev, a resident of the village of Nesterovskaya (Ingushetia), states that his daughter Khava lost her reproductive function after spending a week in the Malgobek Central District Hospital (CDH) and intends to have a criminal case initiated on this fact.

Political analysts in Russia and Georgia are actively discussing the decision of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on unilateral opening the border for residents of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD). In Georgia, experts fear a flood of refugees from Russia and the "creeping aggression" of Ossetians; their Russian counterparts see it as Tbilisi's propaganda step.

Today in Grozny, the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov was elected by the delegates of the World Congress of Chechen People to be Secretary General of the Congress. According to observers, this will make him more independent from the Kremlin.

Residents of the Stavropol Region, who are bagging subscriptions since October 10 for the Region's exit from the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), assert that after unification with the North-Caucasian republics the region faced increased criminality, terror acts and ethnic conflicts.

The cases of Aishat and Apti Magmadovs, arrested near Moscow, Egle Kusaite, suspected of terrorism in Lithuania, and the Gataev family of Chechen refugees, currently pending of their refugee status in Finland, were deliberately linked together to give more international resonance. This was stated by Oksana Chelysheva, deputy director of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship.

Elections to local self-government bodies in the SFD (Southern Federal District) turned into numerous violations, and in Dagestan - into a mass brawl and murder; international organizations focus attention on problems of Southern Caucasus, - look these and other events in the review of the week of October 4-10, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Rudnya District Court of the Volgograd Region has rejected the claim on reinstatement lodged by Viktor Morozov, former head of the district administration, who had voluntarily resigned after local fires on September 2-3. The claimant is going to challenge this decision.